Peter Gottschalk

Religion, Science, and Empire

Classifying Hinduism and Islam in British India

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Produktbeschreibung

Peter Gottschalk offers a compelling study of how, through the British implementation of scientific taxonomy in the subcontinent, Britons and Indians identified an inherent divide between mutually antagonistic religious communities.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 448
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Dezember 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 157mm x 36mm
• Gewicht: 703g
• ISBN-13: 9780195393019
• ISBN-10: 0195393015
• Artikelnr.: 35709942

Autorenporträt

Professor and Chair, Department of Religion, Wesleyan University.

Inhaltsangabe

* Acknowledgements
* List of Illustrations
* Glossaries
* Note on Transliteration
* Foreword by Peter Lake
* Introduction
* Chapter One: Religion, Science, and Scientism
* Chapter Two: Cartography, the Ideal of Science, and the Place of
Religion
* First Interlude: The Dynamics of Comparison and Classification
* Chapter Three: Christocentric Travel Writing: Dynamics of Comparison
and Classification
* Second Interlude: The Five Modes of Comparison
* Chapter Four: Humanist Travel Writing: Ascent of Empiricism and the
On the Spot
* Third Interlude: Classification in the Natural Sciences
* Chapter Five: Categories to Count On: Religion and Caste in the
Census
* Chapter Six: A Raja, a Ghost, and a Tribe: Studies in Ethnology,
Folklore, and Religion
* Chapter Seven: Popularizing Chainpur's Past: Archaeology in Place and
in Museums
* Chapter Eight: Chainpur Today
* Conclusion
* Appendices
* Notes
* Index